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what's your point supporting dictators? The people who dismiss the embargo knows nothing of history and they will repeat the same mistakes. EVERY cuban that man

what's your point supporting dictators? The people who dismiss the embargo knows nothing of history and they will repeat the same mistakes. EVERY cuban that manages to escape that prison island supports the embargo (except few loud lobbies of the cuban government).

Symbiote 4y ago
Can you explain why, for those of us 8000km away?
- luckylion 4y ago
  Probably for the same reason that Germans escaping the Worker's Paradise that was the German Democratic Republic (aka East Germany) weren't big fans of the communist dictatorship that tried to murder them for wanting to emigrate and was extremely corrupt, extremely authoritarian and often looked like they missed the point of 1984 and read it as an instruction manual.
- pkaye 4y ago
  The Cuban Americans in Florida are strongly opposed to opening up to Cuba. To get their support Republicans tend to be opposed to these changes.
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vkou 4y ago
> what's your point supporting dictators? When we support most dictators in the world, but embargo Cuba, it sounds less like a moral stance, and more like hypocrisy. The actual, reason for the embargo, of course, is not a moral stance, or a hypocritical one. It is simply courting Cuban voters[1] in Florida. In Canada, this kind of phenomenon is called 'America sneezes, we catch a cold.' [1] Now that Florida's fully fallen off the spectrum of reasonable politics, those voters may well become less relevant for both parties.
- SaintSeiya84 4y ago
  it stinks democrat here
ClumsyPilot 4y ago
> what's your point supporting dictators? Where was the US embargo when Saudi dictatorship murdered and dismembered a journalist on foreign soil? Sounds like you k ow nothing of history, US currently supports about 20 dictators around the world. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khash...
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mushbino 4y ago
The US supports brutal dictators all around the world and has for decades. Cuba just didn't play nice with american business interests. Season 2 of the podcast Blowback covers our history with Cuba incredibly well.

Symbiote 4y ago

Can you explain why, for those of us 8000km away?

luckylion 4y ago
Probably for the same reason that Germans escaping the Worker's Paradise that was the German Democratic Republic (aka East Germany) weren't big fans of the communist dictatorship that tried to murder them for wanting to emigrate and was extremely corrupt, extremely authoritarian and often looked like they missed the point of 1984 and read it as an instruction manual.
pkaye 4y ago
The Cuban Americans in Florida are strongly opposed to opening up to Cuba. To get their support Republicans tend to be opposed to these changes.

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vkou 4y ago

> what's your point supporting dictators? When we support most dictators in the world, but embargo Cuba, it sounds less like a moral stance, and more like hypocrisy. The actual, reason for the embargo, of course, is not a moral stance, or a hypocritical one. It is simply courting Cuban voters[1] in Florida. In Canada, this kind of phenomenon is called 'America sneezes, we catch a cold.' [1] Now that Florida's fully fallen off the spectrum of reasonable politics, those voters may well become less relevant for both parties.

SaintSeiya84 4y ago
it stinks democrat here

ClumsyPilot 4y ago

> what's your point supporting dictators? Where was the US embargo when Saudi dictatorship murdered and dismembered a journalist on foreign soil? Sounds like you k ow nothing of history, US currently supports about 20 dictators around the world. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khash...

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mushbino 4y ago

The US supports brutal dictators all around the world and has for decades. Cuba just didn't play nice with american business interests. Season 2 of the podcast Blowback covers our history with Cuba incredibly well.